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Jump into PC gaming for under a thousand dollars with a $350 saving on this RTX 5060-powered laptop — the 15.6-inch MSI Cyborg 15 is just $949 at Walmart
Walmart isn't the first choice you think of for computers and components, but it, of course, does stock them and is guilty of being a bit of a sleeper when it comes to hosting some great tech deals if you can find them.…
One of the main deals I spot at Walmart is on their gaming laptop sele…
MSI's Cyborg 15 with RTX 5060 graphics is just $949.
That's a pretty good price for an entire gaming laptop in the current …
Critical 'Zoomsday' flaw enables total device takeover during Zoom calls — AI-assisted research only used 20 prompts to find an exploit to hack hundreds of millions of people.
We've typed many words about how the industry-standard 90-day security bug disclosure window is effectively dead and gone with the advent of AI-assisted exploiting.…
Illustrating that point rather poignantly, researchers at A.
Security easily came up with Zoomsday.
This exploit let any participant in a Zoom meeting gain control over t…
Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM free when you buy AMD's 9900X and an Asus TUF motherboard — $659 Newegg combo saves $274, and you get a free 240mm AIO
Since late 2025, RAM, storage, and graphics card prices have shot through the roof, making items that were once affordable out of reach for many people.…
Anyone still in the market for those parts has to rely on combo deals …
Newegg has an excellent 3-item combo running where you essentially get…
Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737’s Flight Management Computer, mess with takeoff weights, or even divert an aircraft — gadget connects to an easily accessible port that overrides commands from
A group of researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and Oberlin College have developed a tiny device about the size of a coin that directly attaches to an external port on a Boeing 737 that connects to its Flight Management Computer (FMC) and Multipurpose Control Display Unit (MCDU).…
According to Wired, this gadget, which goes into one of the ports that…
It then overrides the signals between the MCDU — the terminal in the c…
The idea began when researchers were experimenting with hacking cars r…
Keychron launches ludicrous 100-key custom macro pad — 10 x 10 ‘keyboard’ uses ‘exclusive’ Keychron Apex switches and features per-key RGB control
Keychron, which is known for making some of the best mechanical keyboards, just announced the C100 8K macro pad, which is available on Amazon and the Keychron website for $64.…
This massive device features a 10-by-10 customizable keyboard, allowin…
It also uses exclusive pre-lubed Keychron Apex tactile switches, paire…
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Memory maker CXMT overtakes Tencent to become China's most valuable company 17 days after its IPO — now worth $524 billion
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is now the world's most valuable Chinese company after passing Tencent today, with a market cap of $524 billion against the Internet giant's $511 billion.…
CXMT's own shares fell 1.
2% on the day; the crossover happened because Tencent fell further aft…
In doing so, CXMT has taken the top spot less than three weeks after i…
Near-packaged optics (NPO) gains ground as the industry hedges against CPO's growing pains — analysts say volume for NPO silicon photonics products will extend until the end of the decade
SemiAnalysis made the case for near-packaged optics (NPO) in a three-part thread posted to X on August 10, describing the architecture as an interim solution for the industry's transition from pluggable transceivers to true co-packaged optics (CPO) and crediting it with three advantages: field-replaceable modules, a failure blast radius confined to a single socketed unit, and simpler assembly, since the optical engine is packaged separately from the switch ASIC.…
Just two months ago, SemiAnalysis published a research note pushing it…
NPO is the architecture that stands to gain if that pessimism proves r…
2T VCSEL-based NPO product line at OFC 2026 in March, and six connecto…
Microsoft's nemesis drops new zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability — attack grants system-level privileges, but it could already be patched
Prolific hacker and Microsoft nemesis 'Nightmare Eclipse' has just published ShieldBreak, yet another Windows zero-day vulnerability that ought to get you SYSTEM-level privileges just by running some code as a regular user.…
Although Eclipse has generally kept ahead of Microsoft, it seems the c…
As described by the author, ShieldBreak is essentially a continuation …
Eclipse claims that Microsoft failed to properly patch RoguePlanet, an…
Functioning version of 'the first arcade video game ever created' heads to auction with $200,000 estimate — green sparkle 2-player edition of Computer Space hails from 1973
A games industry veteran is selling off what is “probably the rarest arcade game in existence” via Boston’s RR Auctions.…
The fully working Computer Space 2-player arcade video game cabinet lo…
It is estimated that the hammer price will be $200,000+, but bidding i…
I ran out of space and am selling my Computer Space arcade machine at …
Just one instruction on AMD's 2015-era CPUs cracks open secret memory areas and gives full hardware-level control — exploit for 15h and 16h chip families gets you access to Platform Security Processor
Many cybersecurity exploits have been deemed The One Ring To Rule Them All, but that moniker is rarely as true as a literal bit that disables the memory mapping on some AMD CPUs, granting access to normally inaccessible areas.…
With just one instruction, you can access off-limits software like Pla…
The exploit is called Skitter Creek Bath Salts (Skitter), and was deve…
Only AMD chips from the 15h and 16h families are affected, roughly 201…
Nvidia Jetson chip found in Russian cruise missile, Ukraine claims — presence in S-71 'Monochrome' weapon may indicate use of AI tech
Russia's latest S-71 'Monochrome' cruise missiles use Nvidia's Jetson Orin modules with artificial intelligence capabilities, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine claimed on Wednesday.…
The S-71 'Monochrome' is distinguished by reduced observability and au…
Nvidia says the Jetson Orin is a consumer-grade device that is not exp…
According to the claims, the module in question carries an Nvidia chip…
Modder straps two desktop CPU coolers to ZTE handset, turns smartphone into a gaming PC — Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC with 24GB of RAM runs The Witcher 3 at 1080p ultra
Modern smartphones pack enough computing power to rival budget PCs.…
However, one of the biggest limitations preventing mobile chips from s…
To tackle the problem, a hardware enthusiast on Reddit carried out an …
The result is a miniature desktop PC built around a phone's motherboar…
$29 per Terabyte makes this 24TB Seagate BarraCuda one of the best-value hard drives in today's market — $50 off at Newegg makes it $200 cheaper than the 20TB version
It's a sorry state of affairs in the storage component sector at the moment, with prices having doubled or more since the AI boom moved in to destroy the PC component ecosystem.…
Prices and deals are now relative to the current climate, not to what …
Today we have a decent $50 discount off of a large 24TB HDD, which tur…
Seagate's Barracuda Compute 24TB HDD is reduced to $699.
Start your PC gaming journey with this $1,100 1080p gaming rig, now $300 off — RTX 5060 rig from Newegg ships with a 10-core Intel CPU, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD
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Intel VP Robert Hallock sets Nova Lake expectations, teases return to Raptor Lake for DDR4 platforms — our full 1:1 interview transcript
This week, we managed to sit down with Robert Hallock, Intel VP and General Manager of Enthusiast Channel Business, in a rare interview that catches the company during a curious time, between product cycles and several months after the launch of the Core Ultra 200S Plus lineup of CPUs.…
With the company’s data center business booming, have consumer product…
The following is a transcript of our interview with Hallock, which has…
We hope you enjoy this unredacted look, exclusively available to Tom’s…
Older Raptor Lake CPUs are a ‘core part of the portfolio’ for years to come, says Intel — there’s been a ‘sudden inrush of demand’ for LGA 1700 chips due to DDR5 prices
Intel’s Robert Hallock, vice president and general manager of Intel’s enthusiast channel business, told Tom’s Hardware Premium in an interview that the Raptor Lake architecture will be part of Intel’s offerings “for years to come.…
” Intel has no plans to abandon Raptor Lake, and if anything, the comp…
Raptor Lake CPUs still rank among the best CPUs for gaming, not only d…
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